http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/10/farming-domains.html
Quote: “”Enter the new ever.com. We hooked up the Squidoo engine to it and people have already built pages like: best.cameras.ever, best.lyrics.ever, funkiest.mammal.ever and even worst.president.ever. We’re limiting the number of pages built per person, and after thirty days, if the page isn’t improved and promoted, we put it back the pool… I think it’s likely that you’ll see more domain holders invest the time and energy to make the domains actually useful. Development, not just investment.”"
***FS*** Scott Day of Digimedia has some incredible domain names. “Ever.com” is a real tasty one without a lot of generic intent traffic, but with a great deal of development potential. With Seth Godin’s help some of that potential has just been unlocked. Most folks who buy domain names are developers at heart.. It’s all a question of timing.. Do you force development today or do you leave it to your children. Domain names have been around since the beginnings of the Internet. They will continue to be the foundational elements well into the future. I don’t see a best before date on high quality generics. The time to develop is when you are in that frame of mind.
Kudos to Scott and Seth for being in that frame of mind today.
Thanks, Frank. Your take on this stuff is always on the cutting edge. Nice to be noticed by you.
Seth
…well, interesting, yes…but let’s be honest here as well…anyone thinking of building a real biz on this “platform” had better think twice–and quickly.
Bad ideas are still bad ideas, even when very smart and prescient people like Seth come up with them (we’ve all come up with at least a few ourselves, I’m sure
How does one hook up/use squidoo engine?
Congrats to Seth and Scott. This is a great idea and a totally legitimate site, but apparently Google doesn’t agree.
Serious question for Seth, Scott, or Frank: How long it will for Ever.com to get out of Google’s blacklist now that the site is no longer just a PPC lander?